Binge Watching Killed Your Attention
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2024
- In this new Simple Thoughts, I wanted to voice some frustrations I've been having with streaming services . With stuff like the Ghost and Molly Mcgee ending and Rap Sh!t getting cancelled, there's been a slew of cancellations or shows ending early happening to so many series now and I've seen many say how they're tired of keeping up. To some it feels like watching TV is done out of obligation rather than enjoyment. Streaming has made it clear it’s true competition was never other services but actually UA-cam which is not good. This was me putting a voice to the grievances people have been having. #youtube #streamingservices
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Are you bothered by the recent cancellations? Do you feel there’s too many shows that rush their plots and end way too quickly?
Not gonna lie, knew a bunch of cancellations gonna happen cuz of the strikes
These cancellations over the last few years have bothered me a lot, and I think that's why I haven't been getting into too much new stuff lately.
@@agentofxehanort Exact same problem for me
Don’t be suprised if the future is FaST models or advertising supported
The cancellation and uncertainty in tv shows really became apparent to me with The Owl House. Despite my thinking that their 3-episode ending was the best it could be, it gutted me to think of what we could’ve gotten with more time.
I’m just kind of checked out of the new stuff. I don’t feel certain any of it will last beyond a season, so there’s no motivation for me to try to get invested. I’d rather go watch the 2017 Ducktales reboot.
The Streaming binge model is too strict. Streaming gives us the luxury of being able to pause & come back whenever we please and now shows are being punished if we do that.
It’s because it’s expected of everyone to binge every show ever
and the whole business is just chaos with shows being traded left n right forcing you to go to other services possibly spending more and more money that adds up to your growing expenses..
Also with people in this day and age just not watching regular cable as much anymore or primetime TV, streaming has changed that giving the people to watch all they want on demand instead of regular weekly scheduling as well as people wanting these shows like microwave food, quick and hot
Man, remember when people thought 52-65 episodes was a short run? I wanna go back to that.
I know, right?
@@Mannof1000Thoughts If someone gave me 65 episodes right out the bat to tell a story, I wouldn't even know what to do with half of them haha.
I remember when TV shows would get TV movies all the time.
It'd be a blessing in disguise if any show could do that nowadays.
Remember when Phineas and Ferb broke that rule.
Seeing a whole 14 episodes drop at once leads me to believe that higher ups just assume we have hours of free time on our hands.
Right.
I get why Bill Motz blames piracy.
But it's been proven time and time again that piracy is mostly a service issue. So, once again, it's the streaming services fault.
Agree.
right? it's like I WANT to pay for things. I WANT to do things legally and in a way that the creatives involved get paid. if a service is both antithetical to my needs as a consumer and antithetical to creators, I'm going to pirate the media I want to watch. it feels like these execs are trying to gaslight all of us and blame everyone else to avoid taking responsibility for destroying everything with their greed.
Like Valve pretty much made piracy for PC games way less common because Steam is a good service, Netflix did this like a decade ago but then everyone wanted a piece of the pie, and now we're in the mess we're in now, I would say because of Greed, but honestly I would imagine Greed wouldn't waste more money to make some, I think it's more likely Nepotism
yeah, like it's not the pirates fault that disney is willing to cancel your show or wipe it off the platform completely, all because people don't have money to pay for yet another streaming service
@@K.C-2049 they definitely gaslighted this guy
All of these cancellation have been infuriating to watch. Shows have been cut to short in the past before (I'm still upset about Wander over Yonder and Motorcity) but its now worse then ever because of streaming. Along with the high demand of shows needing to be instant hits, the binge model, and the lack of proper promotion, the limited amount of episodes have really hurt some shows. My Adventures with Superman is one that instantly comes to mind since as much as I enjoyed the show, it needed far more then 10 episodes. And given the current state of the industry, I have a sinking feeling that S2 may be the last season of this show. Something really does need to change.
Even though I love my adventures with Superman I can’t ignore how fast it gets through its story.
The tweet from Netflix from June 14th 2017 following the cancellation of Sense8 stated
“We don’t like leaving a story unfinished. We learned a lot from Sense (they didn’t bother calling it Sense8) and We’re going to try not to do this in the future.”
Seven years later and this tweet aged horribly like milk.
The way the Hollywood system is currently run (especially streaming-wise) feels like a Jenga tower. You can see it wobble with every move as it tries to reach higher with less foundation and somehow it barely remains standing every time, but you know it's only a matter of time before it all ultimately topples over.
Agreed. Also it’s gonna collapse and replace with Ad supported FaST service
yep, and like most companies honestly they're taking pieces out of the bottom (laying off front line workers, pay cuts, crunch culture) and stacking more and more shit on top at the executive level. matter of time before even the most die hard dumb consumers have just had enough and stop paying.
@@noahbossier1131 I think it's already collapsing given how last year was for the Box Offices
@@nickrustyson8124 yeah tech companies wanted to ruin the film industry
I wish the networks were more straight with the creators from day one. It would be much better if it went like this. *Network Execs:* You get 40 episodes then you are canceled. There is an off chance you might come back. *Creator:* Thank you we will do our best to work within that.
The thing is they do that now, but even that counts gets cut off even more whenever the streamer feels like it
@@Dave102693 That getting cut off isn't fair at all.
I think people pirate stuff is because poverty not all of us have that kinda of money especially if they're not from the us
Star Trek: Prodigy had its first full season pulled off Paramount+ before it even aired ITS LAST 3 EPISODES and it won multiple Emmys. I just can't.
I remember hearing about a new star trek and looking for it, and thinking I'd misremembered....
It’s on Netflix where I am
@@gracekim25 it got rescued by Netflix but the way Netflix cancels things, it might only be temporary...
@gracekim25 @@elenadirectorofmiiss7942 thank you lovelies, I shall check netflix!
If Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was doing six episode drops like last season I can understand but like
14 Episodes is half the season. HALF of a SEASON of 25 EPISODES!!!! This is so frustrating and exhausting. Like pardon me for wanting to see some build up over a series of weeks and not watch it all in one sitting.
It's like executives think we have 7 hours to spare.
I swear steaming services are really becoming something else's nowadays and is really making privacy become a necessary to preserve lost media. I'm still pissed about the HBO tax write off fucking over so many animated shows. Including these other steaming service nuking promising original new series that was done so dirty. Or them obliterating a show or movie you enjoy off the platform that you have no chance of ever watching ever again, it’s just a sad mess all around.
Those companies treat TV shows like movies without seeing the potential in the TV show model, both for the networks and the consumer. When you can only watch an episode a week, you will think about the show for a longer time, you get more invested in the characters and the universe and it's much easier to spend half an hour per week on a show. Instead they want you to finish the show in like a month, better yet, a weekend, right when the show drops, just like how you watch a movie in a theater and watch the entire thing in one sitting.
Sure, a lot of people do binge shows when they come out, but they can't expect everyone to do that. People have jobs, a family, other hobbies or just don't like binging. Companies need to stop looking just at how many people binged the entire show in one month.
As someone who has been trying hard to “catch up” with Pop Culture, I completely understand how your feeling.
As great as it is to have access to so much media (new or not) it does become exhausting for average viewers. We may not have appreciated it back then but tv schedules a long time ago did have the right idea of balancing their premieres and reruns.
It really makes me wish that streaming services had a option where you could group shows into your own “block”. Instead of going to the next episode of your current show it would take you to a ep of another.
No wonder why everyones going indie. They are (rightfully so) scared of getting their show canned before they can tell their story.
It’s exactly that. It doesn’t help that once you give the studio that idea you can’t go anywhere else with it. It’s that companies now and you just have to hope they keep faith in it or don’t have new management come in to kill it entirely.
This is kinda weird to think about especially when it comes to story driven shows. When it came to cable the network had to rerun the show so people won’t get confused but that will only happened if your show was really popular and gotten the views. And if you didn’t than the show was dump on a sister channel that’ll die by the next season. With streaming it should be more convincing and simple but since there are dumbass CEO in charge that don’t know how to run things. They expect you to get views instantly even if they didn’t market the show. And if you don’t meet their high expectation than boom two season and you’ll get replace by other show. Meanwhile shows that people don’t watch or care for getting lots of amounts of season. As someone who was born in 2008 and is in the generation of cable dying and streaming booming and becoming the norm. It’s kinda sad how these shows especially the animation tv series are being treated by big companies. Luckily indie animation is becoming more and more common so there still is a bright future
That really is the key distinction here: it's not the concept of streaming TV itself that's the problem, but the way corporate greed just gets more and more corrupt by the year to the point it actively harms their business without them even realizing it.
@@toon4thought
It seem like they’ll only change their practice if they will be fully going into bankruptcies
it just feels really REALLY bad when shows made by and for non straight white dudes get cancelled. like we can have 4 full seasons of Barry and a proper conclusion (which was good, but fucking weird and went some strange places to mixed reviews) but the second something like Rap Sh!t isn't commercially viable it's done. I feel like these companies are just throwing us a bone representation and inclusion wise when they know they can just cancel it a season or 2 down the road.
As a writer of novels seeing media today just makes me sad. Due to the freedom streaming has given people, a lot of people don't have time or the energy to take a chance on reading a new novel series.
Agreed, People need to take time and read or watch a Series one chapter or an Episode at a time.
They keep saying so called piracy kills the shows.
They really refuse to understand that those who download stuff were never potential viewers for starters.
And there is the fact that when streaming started so called piracy was dying, until suddenly everyone wanted to have their own platform and prices began to skyrocket.
these streaming platforms thought they could throw tons of money at whatever they wanted and gain tons of money in return and when that didn't work rather than adjust the highly flawed system they just demand shows be instant stranger things level hits or else they'll be deemed flops and thrown away
Thank you for saying this! It's become a very frustrating design where we are losing shows thanks to it not reaching high performance standards on streaming. The Ghost and Molly McGee had to end the show without a third season thanks to Disney deciding it was popular, but not popular enough. It seems no matter how hard we try it will never be enough and shows will still be cancelled and shortened, thanks to the extraordinary high standards. On Netflix, Lockwood and Co is one of the most thumbed up shows by people who watched it, and was an amazing, well-paced season that could have led to a full show, but it was cancelled after one season (which ended on a huge cliffhanger). It seems streaming services are screwing over the creators of the shows, because they never seem to get to fully realize their visions, the actors, because their jobs are cut short, and the viewers, because we're forced to have to watch the shows within a certain amount of time or lose them. On the subject of watching tv becoming a job, not only are viewers pressured to fulfil a certain number of viewer metrics, but it's also in a lot of cases come down to fans to even advertise the show (because like you said, social media posts are NOT enough) and to spread the hype. Thanks for making this video because this need to be said and something needs to change!
Old stuff is still good. There is a lot out there that people don't see normally. We should make room for old and new and cancel those who lack effort. the TRASH that clogs us up with rip offs and imitations
Its very frustrating that basically the higher ups of the big entertainment industries are just looking for more ways to cut corners to pay their workers by lazily letting the fans and show crew members promote the shows themselves and not have an advertising manager to do all the work. Especially the way the views on streaming is more important than cable makes this streaming wars idea a fucking joke.
TV is really hard now. I remember it used to be a much more passive experience. You watched what was on to watch. Now it’s a constant choice of what you want to watch and what you should watch. I don’t want to feel like a shows success depends on me prioritizing it immediately. As much as my kids hate it. I feel like the week-to-week model is the best with streaming. You can choose to wait until the end of the season and binge it. You can watch it from the start. You can get on board in the middle. And hopefully 8-12 weeks is long enough to gain a good audience. Disney does usually drop chunks of cartoons at once, especially if they were already on Disney channel. I think Moon Girl was originally dropped in 1 or two chunks. Hopefully that means they aren’t planning on canceling it. I love that show and I’ve been telling everyone to watch it. My daughter loves it. And we bought the soundtrack and that’s one of like 5 albums she owns. I’m not even sure how I’m supposed to know that some of these shows have dropped more episodes too unless they advertise it on the top banner. Ugh, that’s just more work to get up with.
Thanks for the words, fantastic vid man.
Man, I just found your page and immediately subbed. As a writer and consumer of TV, sometimes if I don't watch a show in a certain timeframe and a new show that piques my interest shows up, I feel overwhelmed and disorganized. Hope I am making sense.
I've kept Netflix and Crunchyroll but I've returned to reading mostly because I've checked out for all of the reasons you brought up.
It's just too much of a hassle.
yeah, I feel the same way it sucks to feel attached to a show and then get in cancel The Owl House DuckTales The Spectacular Spider-Man Sym-Bionic Titan My Life as a Teenage Robot Invader Zim Inside Job.
You took the words right out of my mouth…
Nowadays it’s like when there’s a new show i barely even wanna watch it because i don’t want to get attached just to be let down.
A really good thought! I've had shows that I've wanted to watch but procrastinated watching because of fear of them being cancelled, or I just genuinely couldn't watch them at the time they dropped (10 hours of television all at once makes it daunting as well), and then my feelings are compounded by guilt that I didn't watch it as it came out to help it's viewership ratings, leading me to never watch them, because, as you said, it feels like work.
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur deserve respect! I'm watching Season 1 now on DisneyPlus and it's still awesome!
No legit Tubi has legit great content. It be saving me sometimes because I’ll be trying to find a movie go on every streaming service I got nothing has but Tubi do. Plus they have a bunch of old anime on there as well
On people streaming shows illegally it's a bit different when you are from outside the States.
Being a UK fan of animation means I either stream illegally and maybe don't watch it legally when it is available in the UK or I wait and get spoiled and kills any hype. I'm so tired of disney especially not doing worldwide releases for their disney channel stuff.
Season 3 of ducktales was airing in the UK until October 2020 where they closed disney channel. Where to watch any season 3 took until a month after the final episode in the States.
Also by the time shows becomes legally available in the UK they may have already been cancelled so my streaming doesn't even matter . Peak TV is over and pirating and tiktok is what's left... God
i havent been interested in new shows unless i hear a lot about it. i have a hard time sitting down and watching a series, so i want to make it count, and i really can't say a lot of things have caught my eye that are complete and compelling stories. streaming is at its breaking point atm, and if they dont wisen up, its all gonna collapse
I agree with the majority of what was said in the video, except for the whole "streaming is more expensive than cable" thing. As if cable hasn't raised their prices too. The nice thing about streaming is that if you're a casual TV viewer and you aren't that picky, it's only as expensive as you want it to be. Streaming only gets super expensive if you try to buy the highest tier of every monthly subscription service that exists. Who on earth has time to watch all that content every month? Most people just have about four or fewer of those at any given time and just cancel whatever they aren't currently watching because it's super easy to do that. If you're paying for cable and you never watch some of the channels, guess what, you're still paying for them, and they make it considerably harder to cancel their services. A lot of modern shows are exclusive to streaming, so you'll lose access to them if you switch back to cable. It's not like cable has gotten better over time, either. Have you tried watching TBS lately? They have sped up their shows so they can fit even more ads into their program block, and I wouldn't be shocked if other cable channels start doing that, too. Do you like Tubi because it's more like how Hulu used to be? Guess what? That's just one of the most popular FAST services. (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television) Just one of them offers hundreds of free channels. Even broadcast TV can't beat that deal.
I’m still annoyed Netflix cancelled Inside job and Ridley Jones 😢
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Streaming Services should be like tubi were there is an ad tier that's free but you pay for no ads
So FAST services? Those already exist, but they almost never get brought up. Everyone focuses on how expensive monthly subscription apps are, as if everyone is paying the highest tiers for every single monthly subscription service every month. In reality most people only pay for about four every month and temporarily cancel anything they aren't watching.
@@jasonsamuels3757 yep they should just put all the shows from back in the day on free with ads streaming services that way it puts more competition for them to actually make good original movies and TV shows for there Streaming services and if they cancel a series it would go on a free with ads streaming services
Like Dead End Paranormal Park had two season released in the same year, 2022 and it still got cancelled.
I was watching Inside Job Season 1(Part 1) on the day it premired on Netflix. I was supposed to watch "Season 2"(apparently Netflix split Season 1 into two parts) when it premiered, but I had a lot of things on my plate in my life that I couldn't even get into it. And then it got cancelled. So I have never watched Part 2 of Season 1 since the announcement. I'm still sad about it though. It's also why I haven't been kept up with new shows recently. The only new tv series I have seen in last year was Scavengers Reign and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.
I honestly wish we could have a show that takes its time with its worldbuilding and character development. I actually like One Piece, and I wish we could have more shows like it, but streaming has made everything quick, easy, and cheap. It doesn't feel like there's any craft any more because the shows with any craft will be cancelled after like 2 seasons.
It really sucks in general but I feel like it's much worst for animated shows than for anything else and it feels horrible
It’s way worse for animated shows
I feel awful about this as person who’s actually working in animated productions there is a lot of work put into these but it feels nasty when stuff is getting cancelled left and right and the work put into what’s been created is dumped into the trash
Who's that above meta knight in the background I thought it was Asoka for a second
Rebecca from cyberpunk
Cool thx, haven't watched that yet@@Mannof1000Thoughts
I know what you mean, pal. What's the point of any of it?
I can’t let this happen to moon girl especially when they have a season 3 planned it deserves to get a third season and complete it’s story
Crazy
Between there just being too much Original contwnt bwing put out on theae streaming services and these streaming services costing too much nowadays per month, it's not surprising that people rely on other means of watching all this newer stuff and said newer stuff being cancelled more and more. All that in total is why people are cutting them off because of how much they've become "jobs" and glorified cable channels that build up to being one painful burning hole in the consumer's wallet.
A lot of people are canceling their streaming subscriptions for one reason or another lately so I don’t think it’s gonna matter in the long run.
Tbh... I dont watch tv anymore. I watch a couple of shows. I didnt even know rap shit existed until the 2nd season and ive had a Max Subscription since the service started. We live in silos and since i watch mainly animation and Documentaries the algorithm never shows me certain content.
I mean no obviously not.
imagine making something you really like with others only for it to ignored in favor of a cheap/amateurish something done by a gamer
I use to be a blogger and reviewer on a My Little Pony fansite, I started watching MLP-FiM in 2013, and it was the best thing I had seen in a while, so I joined a fansite to share my love of the characters and the show. After four years, I was completely spent and tapped out, I was no longer interesting in G4 MLP, I had to watch every new episode, then rewatch it to analyse every line and every frame of animation, it was gruelling, I felt I was losing hours of my leisure, watching a show I felt was becoming mediocre, but the site need me to please the Bronies, no matter how much crunch me and other writers were experiencing. This all happened in 2016, season five was the last season I saw in full, and the last season I reviewed, it was such a bitter experience, I can no longer watch MLP-FiM, I recently tried on Netflix, but I quit after a few minutes, the memories of being harassed and stalked just to give my opinion on pony related content, was painful and traumatic experience, watching MLP shouldn't have been a job, yet I got the last laugh, as I witnessed the fansite and the fans ruin the last shred of dignity, I was grateful not to be caught in the middle of that squabble.
I shouldn't feel like i have to earn every single season.
Well said!
What's the point of Streaming On Demand, when you can't even Demand more seasons/episodes or better shows/movies?
Honestly... this is killing animation for me...
We need to put the creator ahead of children.
The rules that are made to "protect" children are all BS that just hurts the creator made by adults who THINK they know what's right Every change the Government makes to protect children harms creators, harms shows . And the point is, kids are not being harmed at all. they can take it. They can deal with it. It is the adults who wrongly assume and make decisions.
Look at where we are now
No Selling toys = less money to the studio, show gets canceled
Show must be educational = No Super Hero or Action shows
Shows can't be too scarry = Nothing is ever at stake
Shows can't be offensive = No representation
Shows must include representation = forced offensive stereotype gets added with nothing to do beyond one episode
Shows must be for children only = If adults watch it , it gets canceled.
We don't want creeps commenting on the comment section and stalking children = No one can comment at all and your video never makes money because it doesn't fit the algorithm
Kids need to be protected from sex and violence = We block reviews and edits and reactions to animated shows while Happy Tree Friends and shows like it go completely undetected
We want to protect kids from sex and nudity and other big scary words = we harm an entire culture mostly with in the LGBT community.
We want to end school shootings and drugs = Cartoon censorship to remove violence and vices
and any thing else you want to toss in the mix, PITA, MAGA ANTIFA, PTA, LGBT, all the abbreviations they all stab away at cartoons, carve them up till nothing is left but a dule harmless PBS series and even THOSE cause controversy. You can't even have your characters be a COLLOR (or a shape) if that color is on some one's flag with out the world thinking you're slipping subliminal messages
that or we all have to stop owning colors and shapes.
Bottum live, children will be happy any place they end up living. You can surround them with any thing and they'll grow up perfectly normal. YOU are the ones who read to much in to it and turn it ugly. YOU, the adult, you judge morality by 1950s America. But there are so many different kids of socially acceptable normals.
Stop freaking out every time a child sees kissing or an advertisement or a gun. These things don't ruin Innocence. Let creators relize there full vision.
Not just kids show getting cancelled though? Wtf. What does the over censorship of television have to do with this?
Half of that you said a child shouldn’t be seeing and sounds more for Teens not kids, if your ok with children seeing half of this you have a serious problem,
creator vision be damned no child should be seeing sex or nudity period that’s wrong so many levels and grown adults who are neets and haven’t grown up and are being creepy on a cartoon for kids yeah they shouldn’t be commenting let alone be on the space as kids.